Alternative sleep cycles: stretch your day
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
I have a friend who once dreamed of sleep a day just two hours and with virtually no experience fatigue. I dream about, that at certain times in the day was twenty-four, and at least thirty-six hours.
Fellow workaholics and other creative people, I have good news for you! Stretch the day before the thirty-six hours, of course, impossible, but sleep less and stay awake longer very real! Because apart from the usual for most of the cycle "sleep 6-8 hours, 16-18 hours of wakefulness," there are four more that just allow to perform miracles;)
So, apart from the usual for the majority of a single phase of the sleep cycle, there are other options multiphase, which can help extend the working day, and it does not harm health. Lezhuan Jordan (Jordan Lejuwaan), creator HighExistence, Shares interesting information.
cycle Superman
This cycle includes a sleep over 20-30 minutes every four hours. The result is that you sleep six times a day. Ubermen cycle is considered to be very effective - people feel more healthy, feel a surge of strength and see very vivid dreams. But it does have one major drawback: if you miss at least one phase of sleep, will feel tired and not enough sleep.
Steve Pavlina practiced this cycle for 5.5 months, but then returned to normal sleep, in order to live in unison with his family.
Average cycle
This cycle includes one "main" long sleep (1-1.5 hours) and three or four or five short of sleep for twenty minutes. The remaining time after the main sleep is divided so that the short break occurred at regular intervals.
This schedule is considered to be more flexible and easier to adapt to it and it can be combined with single-sleep cycle for three or four hours. Also, sometimes you can skip "short dreams" without harm to health.
Dymaxion cycle
Bucky Fuller led the sleep cycle, based on its belief that a person has two tanks with energy. And if the first vessel is very easy to refill, the second (the second breath) is not much more readily replenished. As a result, he began to sleep for thirty minutes, 4 times a day, every six hours, for a total of only two hours of sleep! However, he said he had never felt more energetic. Doctors examined the tanks after two years of the cycle, and declared him completely healthy.
This is by far the most extreme of the four alternatives, but it is also the most effective sleep cycle.
Two phase cycle or Siesta
This dream is practiced by many high school students and students and includes four - four and a half hours of sleep a night and for about an hour - a half day. This cycle is not much different from a single-phase, but still a little more effective.
Go to the new multi-phase cycle will not be easy, and approximately on the tenth day of the third, you will feel like a zombie. Just be patient, eat a healthy low-fat food, and everything will be fine. After about two weeks you will feel the promised result.
Such experiments can be carried out only if you know exactly what you have in stock two or three weeks and absolutely free that your work and studies will be able to cohabit with your new schedule. As in other matters, and your family.